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We Need a Protest 
Calendar 

What would it take for Eugene Weekly to 
prepare and publish a calendar of upcom- 
ing demonstrations/political events in the 
area? Turnout is exploding at recent town 
meetings, such as Sen. Jeff Merkeley and 
Rep. Val Hoyle, and so many there asking 
what they can do. Attending such an event 
is certainly better for your health than 
endless doom scrolling. 


John Brobst 

Eugene 

Editor's Note: Great minds think alike! 

Please see the “Activist Alert” column we 
brought back! 


Tax Exemptions are 
Gutting Us 

Carol Ipsen's letter (3/25) hits the spot. 
How can anyone with common sense 
disagree that a city facing a serious budget 
short-fall should in no way continue its 
short sighted policy of property tax exemp- 
tions? Where else does the city get an 
important part of its funds to operate? I 
agree with Ipsen wholeheartedly that “you 
can't make this **** up.” For example, 
when I think of one of Eugene's greatest 
programs, an inspiration to other cities 
throughout the country, a critical service 
known as CAHOOTS is now facing a fund- 
ing shortfall. Another one of my favorite 
city services, the Eugene Library system 
is in dire straits. Again, I will add my 
voice to ask, stridently, when so many 
city services are desperately in need of 
funding, why city councilors continue 
these bizarre property tax exemptions. 

Who might benefit from them? 
maRco Elliott 
Eugene 


Don’t Privatize the Park 
Blocks 

Isee with dismay that the city of Eugene 
wants to privatize the downtown Park 
Blocks for an apartment complex. Mayor 
Kaarin Knudson is right that Eugene needs 
more housing downtown, but she is wrong 
to try squeezing it onto the Park Blocks. 
That land was donated by city founder 
Eugene Skinner specifically for a court- 
house square, a central public park. 

The tiny undeveloped lot beside the 
Farmers Market is simply too small for an 
apartment building, much less for the park- 
ing it would require. What downtown needs 
to attract housing is an intact, well-de- 
signed park. Let's expand the announced 
design competition to include park-only 
ideas. 

To kick things off, here are five things 
I'd like to see in the undeveloped corner 
of the Park Blocks: 

1. А playground. If you want people to 
live downtown, it needs to be livable for 
families with children. 

2. Agiant letter-sculpture with the word 
“EUGENE.” Cities all over the world use 
these letter-sculptures to celebrate the 
center of town. 

3. A canopy of bigleaf maple trees. 

4. The Frog memorial bench that Satur- 


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day Market vendors are raising money for. 

5. A giant, strange SLUG queen throne. 
For 40 years, coronations have been held 
in the Park Blocks. Weirdness is OK in 
Eugene. 


William Sullivan 
Eugene 


Newman for 4J 

With all the chaos coming from the 
federal government, it's important people 
know there is something concrete we can 
do to help our community' schools. Please 
vote in the local school board elections 
this May for a candidate who cares about 
children, for protecting public schools, 
and standing up for fair opportunity for 
every child. 

When I was superintendent of Eugene 
41, one of our great allies and commu- 
nity partners was Judy Newman. For 45 
years, she has been a real champion for 
students. She co-founded and directed 
Early Childhood CARES at the University 
of Oregon, a program for young children 
with developmental delays or disabilities. 
Her program has helped more than 40,000 
children acquire the skills to succeed in 
school. It is a national model for early 
special education. Newman will stand up 
to federal threats to public schools and to 
the undermining of equity and opportu- 
nity. She has proven this with her lifetime 
of work, and through her past eight years 
on the 4J School Board. 

And, now that 4J is about to hire a new 
superintendent, I can tell you from expe- 
rience working with her over many years 
that we need Newman's stability, kindness 
and deep knowledge on the board during 
this transition. She is the only current 
41 board member who has served more 
than one term. 

Iam extremely grateful she is willing 
to step up and run again. We need her in 
these troubling times. Please join me in 
voting for Judy Newman in May. 

George Russell 
Eugene 


Make the Ems Truly Local 

In your Slant column (3/20) you ask 
about the Emeralds’ marketing wizards 
coming up with a plan to keep the team 
in Eugene. Well, how about the Emeralds 
form a public company and offer shares 
to the public? 

Г invest in shares if they had an IPO. 
This has been an effective way in other 
countries. That way the Eugene Emeralds 
could truly be “our” team and raise funds 
to stay local. 

Baz Freedman 
Eugene 


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Why the University of Oregon is on the 
precipice of a strike 


"'m an economics professor at the University of Oregon, but you 
don't need a Ph.D. to see the problem here. The state should be 
investing more in UO, its faculty and students given the optimistic 
forecast that it is expected to take in $6 billion more in revenue 
over the next two years. 

My fellow 3,850 faculty members at UO and I continue to teach tens of thou- 
sands of students each year, diligently and skillfully guiding them along their 
higher education path toward a successful career, despite wages that continue 
to fall well below inflation. Many of us work in cutting-edge research that puts 
UO on the map for innovative discoveries in medicine and other areas. 

But we've just about reached our limit and are about to say to the univer- 
sity — partner with us on a fair contract by March 31 or we walk out. 

We've consistently been asking for decent compensation and respect for 
the work we do for our students and the university, but we are rejected. The 
university’s administration has refused to bargain in good faith for over a year, 
setting itself up for a first-time-ever strike by full-time and part-time faculty. 
This is not what we ever wanted, but unless the university's administrators 
come to the table soon with serious intentions, we will strike. 

This distressing situation says a lot about where we stand in the university’s 
overall view of its educational mission. From what we've seen and heard at the 
bargaining table, we're not being prioritized. It has already caused distressing 
turnover in many departments in which faculty members have left for positions 
at other institutions that pay better. Retention and recruitment are critical to 
providing students with talented faculty, offering a diversity of courses and 
keeping class sizes and workloads for faculty at reasonable levels. 

The stunning thing about the university's resistance to a fair contract is that 
enrollment is up by about 3 percent and the state’s chief economist estimates 
there will be nearly $6 billion more in state revenue over the next two years. So 
why are they nickel-and-diming us when we aren't even earning livable wage? 

We are the heart and soul of the university, yet they aren't willing to treat 
us as such. 

This comes at a very challenging time for UO. There is great uncertainty 
about continuation of federal grants. It is now more important than ever that 
administrators and state leaders step up and invest in the people who are 
educating and training the next generation of Oregonians. This is an invest- 
ment in the future of our students, the state and its economy. 

Parents who send their children to UO expect faculty to be treated well so 
that they'll stay at the university and enjoy their work. No matter what the 
occupation or employer — when workers aren’t respected with fair compen- 
sation and a voice in the workplace, they'll look elsewhere where they are 
treated better. 

There's still time left for UO administrators to decide that it would be better 
to work with the faculty as partners, not antagonists. We are hoping that will 
come in short order so we can avoid walking out. 


‘Mike Urbancic is president of United Academics of the University of Oregon. 


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It’s eug! 
BY EW EDITORIAL STAFF 


>> Welcome to our annual Satire 
Issue where we crack ourselves up 
and sometimes scare readers. No, 
we are not rebranding as “eug.” Funny 
(and true) story about that — buy us 
a beer and maybe someday we will tell 
you whose bright idea that was! 


>> Not satire, but should be. Anyone 
else get themselves a Signal app just їп 
case the Trump White House wants to 
include you on a text thread involving 
issues of national security? No? Just us? 


>> In news we didn't fit into print: 
Head to EugeneWeekly.com to read 
Mirandah Davis-Powell's coverage of 
the recent Rep. Val Hoyle town hall 
— Hoyle said of the current turn of 
affairs: "This is different than anything 
we've been through in the history of this 
country.” Also read Emma J Nelson's 
update of the end (or new beginning) 
of the decade-long Juliana v. United 
States landmark constitutional climate 
lawsuit, whose namesake was born and 
raised in the Eugene-area, and Mason 
Falor on Oregon Coast Humane Society's 
impending acquisition of a vet clinic. 


>>White Bird Clinic announced that 
starting April 7 it is temporarily 
reducing its CAHOOTS Mobile Crisis 
Response in Eugene to one shift per 
week. CAHOOTS in Springfield will still 
operate 11 am to 11 pm, seven days a 
week. White Bird's Crisis Hotline will be 
staffed 8 am to 8 pm, Monday through 
Friday. According to an open letter from 
CAHOOTS & HOOTS Workers Union 
to White Bird, all but seven CAHOOTS 
workers are being laid off. Union rep 
Chelsea Swift says CAHOOTS provid- 
ers “do not know" when the one Eugene 
shift per week falls, and that White Bird 
"wants that to be up to the workers left 
atthe program," but "that group is not 
yet finalized." Amée Markwardt, White 
Bird's interim executive director, says 
that its administration will “figure out 
this week" when the one shift will be, 
and that while only seven workers will 
be retained as full time, "most other 
staff have the opportunity to stay on 
the relief pool and stay employed in 
that avenue." Read more at Eugene- 
Weekly.com. 


>> City Club of Eugene hosts writer, 
hiker and historian William L. Sul 
van noon, Friday, March 28, at WOW 
Hall. Sullivan, who also writes the Week- 
ly’s popular hiking column, will explain 
why he believes Oregon journalism has 
changed but was “more divisive in the 
past,” and “the one thing that never 
seems to change is people's need for 
news.” His late father was the editor of 
the (Salem) Statesman-Journal. More 
at CityClubOfEugene.org, and listen 
Monday nights at 7 pm on KLCC. 


NEWS 


ACTIVIST 


Protests and activism 
around Lane County 


BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN 


<< Save Our Services Kick Off 
Fundraiser, 5 pm, Thursday, March, 
27, Ninkasi Brewing, 155 Blair Boule- 
vard. "Join former Congressman Peter 
Defazio, nonprofit leaders, union lead- 
ers and elected officials in defending 
our important City Services including 
firefighters, libraries, animal welfare 
services and homeless outreach from 
attack." 


>> Eugene Critical Mass Bike Ride, 
6:30 pm, Friday, March 28,10 East Broad- 
way (Kesey Square). "Critical Mass is a 
worldwide movement where cyclists 
gather once a month in a festive and 
radically pro-bike environment.” 


>> Bigfoot Strikers Town Hall, 2 
pm, Saturday, March 29, WOW Hall, 
291 West 8th Avenue. “Join us for a 
panel discussion with striking workers 
at Bigfoot Beverages who are entering 
their sixth month on the strike line and 
stand against Bigfoot’s anti-worker 
union busting.” 


>> 10-Year Memorial for Brian Babb, 
veteran killed by Eugene police, 2 pm, 
Saturday, March 29, Sacred Connec- 
tions, 810 West 3rd Avenue. 


>> Replace Reverse Reclaim/Hands 
Off! Eugene Fights Back, noon, Satur- 
day, April 5, 50501 Movement, Eugene 
City Hall, 500 East 4th Avenue. See Mobi- 
lize.us/handsoff/event/767006 for events 
in Corvallis, Florence and more. “This 
mass mobilization day is our message 
to the world that we do not consent to 
the destruction of our government and 
our economy for the benefit of Trump 
and his billionaire allies.” 


Email Editor@EugeneWeekly.com with "Activist 
Alert” in the subject line to add protests to this 
listing, and go to EugeneWeekly.com to add them 
to the Weekly's What's Happening Calendar 


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Bricks 5 Mortar 


BY CHRISTIAN WIHTOL 


TEXAN LASSOS U0’S 
TREETOPS MANSION 


$2 million buys a Knight Campus advisory board 
member the Fairmount neighborhood home 


BY CHRISTIAN WIHTOL 


Texas-based investment exec 
has snapped up a contro- 
versial old bauble of Eugene 
real estate. 

Willam Cornog — a former 

leader at private-equity giant ККВ and a 

current member of a University of Oregon. 

advisory board — on March 14 bought the 

Treetops mansion at 2237 Spring Boule- 

vard from the University of Oregon for $2 

million, according to the deed. 

Donated to the UO nearly a century 
ago, the building in the elite Fairmount 
neighborhood was fought over for years 
by the donor’s heirs. The UO eventually 
obtained clear title to the house in 2018, 
and, after foot-dragging, put it on the 
market recently with a real estate broker 
for $2.5 million. 


Cornog paid $500,000 in cash, and 
signed an IOU to pay the UO the balance 
by Dec. 31, deeds show. 

How will the UO use the dough? Wage 
hikes for workers who are close to going 
on strike? 

Cornog is no stranger to Eugene. He's 
a volunteer member of the external advi- 
sory board for the UO's Phil and Penny 
Knight Campus for Accelerating Scien- 
tific Impact. Since 2006, he’s bought and 
sold several residential properties in Lane 
County, deeds show. 

Completed in 1911, Treetops totals 8,000 
square feet on 1.5 wooded acres. The prop- 
erty demands attention from its owner. 
The UO spent thousands of dollars a year 
heating and repairing it. Last year, the 
UO replaced a failed boiler system and 


related electrical equipment, and in 2021, 
it replaced a water main, permits show. 

Cornog will face a property tax bill of 
about $25,000 a year. As a state agency, 
the UO did not pay property taxes. 

In Eugene, $2 million is the upper end 
of the market. But on Cornog's home turf 
of Dallas, it's loose change. The house he 
and his wife own there was worth 816.2 
million in 2023, according to D Magazine's 
list of the 100 spendiest homes in the Dallas 
area, The Cornogs clocked in at No. 64. 

The UO spent years untangling the 
status of Treetops. A wealthy family 
donated it in 1938 on condition it be used 
as the home of either the UO president 
or the state chancellor of education. But 
the president has another UO-provided 
home — the nearby McMorran House at 
2315 McMorran Street — and the chancel- 
lor used the place only fitfully, sparking 
a lawsuit from some heirs. Then, in 2015, 


TREETOPS MANSION ON SPRING 
ULEVARD IN THE FAIRMOUNT 
NEIGHBORHOOD. Photo 


Eve Weston 


the state eliminated the chancellor posi- 
tion, depriving the house of its nominal 
tenant. It took the UO until 2018 to get all 
the heirs to waive their claims in return 
for unspecified compensation, deeds show. 

Cornog's had a dizzying career in high 
finance. He headed KKR Capstone, a unit 
of KKR, the New York-based behemoth 
that buys, manages and sells businesses 
worldwide in a quest for profits that beat 
stock market returns. KKR Capstone helps 
KKR pick acquisitions and run them for 
optimal profits. 

After 20 years at KKR, Cornog quit in 
2022 and now serves on boards of busi- 
nesses, including a products logistics 
company and an electric motorbike maker. 


Bricks $ Mortar is a column anchored by Christian 
Wihtol, who worked as an editor and writer at The 
Register-Guard in Eugene 1990-2018, much of the 
time focused on real estate, economic development 
and business. Reach him at Christian@ 
EugeneWeekly.com 


THE SHOOTING DEATH OF BRIAN BABB 


10 years after the military 
veteran was killed by law 
enforcement, a memorial 
remembers him and other 
victims of police violence 


BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN 


en years ago on March 3o, 2015, Brian Babb, 
a 49-year-old military veteran with PTSD, 
was armed and feeling suicidal, according to 
court documents. He had fired his gun and 
told his therapist as much when he called 
her for help. 

Within an hour of that call, Babb was shot and killed 
by a Eugene police officer. 

His sister, Stephanie Babb, is holding a memorial March 
29 for Brian Babb and for others who have been killed by 
police violence. She says, “There will be an opportunity 
for people to get up and share stories about their own 
loved ones.” 

Babb, who served with the Army National Guard in 
Afghanistan, had come to the door of his house after the 
police rolled up in an armored BearCat vehicle. Police said 
he was carrying a rifle, something the family’s lawyers 
later disputed. The rifle found by his side after a police 
officer shot him through the head was later found to be 
unloaded. 

The memorial, Stephanie Babb says, is not just about 
Brian: “This is just a tribute to the warriors who have 
carried this burden of somebody's demise,” and, “it just 


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really brings an awareness to how fragile some situations 
can be, especially with veterans.” 

A police investigation at the time ruled the shooting 
was justified, and in February 2020 a jury rejected a lawsuit 
the family filed in 2018. Stephanie Babb says vital foren- 
sic investigative information was deemed inadmissible.” 

ል month later the COVID pandemic hit, and not long 
after that the Black Lives Matter protests lit up when 
George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police. 

Stephanie Babb says of the civil suit, “We understood 
that if we'd won, it would be another affluent white family” 
and points to statistics showing Black and Latino people 
are more likely to be shot by law enforcement. She also 
points to the 2019 shooting deaths of Charlie Landeros 
and Eliborio Rodrigues by Eugene police. 

А 2021 study shows 1,000 people are killed by police 
gunfire each year in the U.S. and that “Black Americans 
are disproportionately killed, as they make up 13 percent 
of the U.S. population yet 25 percent of those killed by 
police.” A 2024 study in the American Journal of Public 
Health found that behavioral health calls are a common 
interaction preceding injurious shootings by police. 

‘The Eugene police auditor at the time, Mark Gissiner, 
pointed to flaws in the investigation into the shooting by 
the Interagency Deadly Force Investigations Team that 
he said meant the family didn’t have closure. The flaws 
included the investigative team leaving the bullet that 
killed Babb still lodged in the wall of his home, leaving 
Babb’s body for too long in the doorway where he was 
killed, not fingerprinting the 9-mm weapon later found 
in Babb's truck to confirm it was the same gun he shot in 
the house and not fingerprinting or DNA testing the rifle 
by Babb’s body. Finally, there was no sightline investiga- 


tion to ensure it was possible that Babb raised his rifle 
before the officer fired. 

The investigation and report were left out of the trial. 

А decade later Gissiner says that he still sees the design 
of the model of how Eugene handles investigations into 
officer-involved shootings as flawed. He says, “Nothing 
is going to change until something really bad happens — 
until an unarmed teen is shot and killed holding something 
that an officer mistakes as a gun. Someday it will happen, 
and there will be cries for the whole system to implode.” 

Gissiner retired in 2021 but is currently serving as 
Eugene's interim auditor. 

In the wake of Brian Babb's death, his family campaigned 
to reduce police shootings and change how police respond 
to veterans and those іп a mental health crisis. 

Ronda McGowan, Brian's other sister, says, “То say I 
miss my brother would be like removing my arm or legs 
and saying, “Ро you miss them?” 

She continues, “Hell yes, I miss him. Every day of 
my life and they can’t take that back. Brian, we tried, 
brother. We tried to help others to avoid the same thing 
that happened to you, being shot and killed by police. 
We have saved lives.” 

Stephanie Babb says, “We go through things every 
day. We have car crashes. We lose family members to 
illness. There are all these tragedies.” But she says when 
it comes to police shootings, “One thing people forget is 
it’s the entity that we have to rely on in our communities 
to uphold and enforce the law in order to keep harmony 
and a sense of stability and safety” And when someone is 
killed by the police, that sense is stolen from the families. 

“Every year is a year he could have had with his family, 
with the community she says of the decade since his death. 

Eugene police did not have comment for this story. 


The 10-year memorial for Brian Babb and for others killed in police 
shootings is 2 pm Saturday, March 29, at Sacred Connections 
Community Church, 810 West 3rd Avenue. 


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THE SATIRE ISSUE 


ts eug! 


Eugene Weekly rebrands 
for the digital age 


BY EUG TEAM 


ook out, Eugene! The eug 
is here! 

Again and again, readers 
in Lane County have made it 
clear — they want local news 

by local writers and they want it on 
the printed page. 

So in the early hours of April 1, 
the eug became the latest rebranding 
of the paper you have loved — once 
What's Happening, then Eugene 
Weekly and now, just eug. 

Why? Because eug is shorter and doesn't require the 
oppressive hierarchy of capital letters! 

And newsperts, who don't live around here, say they 
know what you really want, and we're listening. More digi- 
tal news, more Al-based reporting, and more journalism 
supplied by other people who also aren’t from this area 
using all the latest mod cons. 

The eug is the answer to that. 

Editor Camilla Mortensen says the fact that University 
of Oregon students refer to the area as “the Dirty Eug" just 
shows how “hip” the new, shorter name is. “eug doubles down 
on who we are,” she says, “while making very little sense 
to anyone who doesn't live here and know what the airport 
code is — meaning we can expand our brand anywhere!” 

eug will still feature the mix of old hippies, half-retired 
reporters, bleeding heart liberal queers and journalists fresh 
out of undergrad as it always has. 

One “eug” difference is the exciting new addition of a 
digital paywall to the eug website. For $2 a month, readers 
can access all the stories they once read for free. 

Bentley Freeman, former reporter for Eugene Weekly, 
now a classified ads sales person for the eug, explains the 
change, saying, “We've seen such enthusiasm for paywalled 
news sites that it was a no-brainer to charge a nominal fee 
just to make the point we are eugly worth it.” 

Print papers will still be free, because it's too expensive 
to update the red boxes. 

Eugene Weekly was here for more than 40 years, but now 
its time to get eug! 


Letters to the Editor 


eu 

Expands 

to port, 
cruz 


Publisher of eug announced April 1 
that the local paper would become a 
bit less local 


BY EMMA J NELSON 


y spring 2026, eug plans to launch affiliate papers 
in two alt-weekly news deserts: Portland, Oregon, 
and Santa Cruz, California. The affiliate papers, 
port and cruz respectively, will feature the same 
level of snark that eug is known for while filling 

a widening gap in local coverage. 

While Portland is well-covered in terms of daily and even 
monthly reporting, eug publisher Jody Rolnick says, “The 
city is in desperate need of a comprehensive weekly.” So 
keep an eye out for some red boxes on the streets of Port- 
land in the coming months, as well as copies in your local 
markets, as port hits the shelves. 

Rolnick describes eug’s Santa Cruz-based project as 
“experimental,” being a print-only product of AI-generated 
weekly newsletter read aloud in “the fashion of a town crier." 

“Santa Cruz has some digital coverage,” she says. “We 
hope to draw people in with the ringing of a bell and the 
yell of an ‘Extra extra!” 

An anonymous source working with eug says the orga- 
nization has already begun looking at locations in Califor- 
nia to create cruz offices, but Rolnick refuses to comment. 

Much is changing at the eug office, and you can look out 
for timely updates on all things new at EugeneWeekly.com 
(URL subject to change). 


But What About the Kittens? 
Lately the news has been dominated by 
fearmongering about all the attacks Donald 
Trumpis supposedly making on DEI, civil 
servants and small businesses affected by 
tariffs. But no one is talking about the 
kittens. What about the kittens? 


Claudia 0'Кайу 
Eugene 


Chemtrails Have the 
Last Word 

No one has been listening to 
me for the last 25 years as I've. 
tried to warn about the danger- 
ous plot, run by the CIA, to turn 
all Americans into submissive 
sheep by poisoning them with 
chemical agents delivered by 


passenger jets in the sky. It's chemtrails 
that gave us Donald Trump and QAnon. 
Its chemtrails that have caused climate 
change. Without chemtrails, our 
youth would be excelling in 
school instead of seeking 
electronic solace from 
the poison in their 
phones. 
I was right all 
along. See! See! See! 
Go Ducks! 


Cassandra D. Visionary 
Springfield 


Write Louder 


I was recently made 
aware that the editor and 


the publisher of Eugene Weekly “identity 
as female” as the libs like to say it. This 
revelation solved a conundrum for me — I 
have had trouble reading your newspaper, 
and it’s because I have a little difficulty 
with my hearing. Specifically, I have trou- 
ble hearing women’s voices. 

I would like to request that you have 
real men on staff, preferably white and 
over 55. I hear those voices the best. Even 
in print. 


Cal Loudermilk 
Creswell 


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Eugene 
Introduces 
‘Speed Hump 
Studios’ Pilot 
Program 


New initiative reclassifies asphalt 

mounds as “micro-dwellings” to 

simultaneously address student 
housing concerns and traffic calming 


BY MIRANDAH DAVIS-POWELL 


Amid skyrocketing housing costs and perpetual budget 
constraints, Eugene urban planners unveiled an innova- 
tive solution designating the city’s extensive network of 
speed humps as tiny home studios for student renters. 
“At 12 square feet each, they're admittedly cozy, but 
they offer excellent accessibility to transportation infra- 
structure)’ a city of Eugene Housing manager told the eug. 


City-County 
Drag Battle 


Eugene pushes back on the Lane 
County Commission's drag ban 


BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN 


After the Lane County Commission voted 3-0 on April 
1to ban drag shows in Eugene, Eugene city councilors 
pushed back — pointing out that the county cannot control 
what the city does. 


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The commission is made up of five members. However, 
Commission Chair David Loveall has banned the two 
female commissioners, Heather Buch and Laurie Trieger, 
from voting on any issues that involve “gender and DEI,” 
saying it’s not something they need to “worry their pretty 
little heads about.” 

City Councilor Mike Clark said after hearing about the 
vote that he objected strenuously to the county’s over- 
reach, “I don't think I like drag — I don't know, I have 
never seen it — but it’s the principle of the matter. Also, 
Ilike ’80s music, and I hear they lip sync to that a lot” 

Commissioner Ryan Ceniga, who also sits on the Junc- 
tion City School Board and claims he has never seen a drag 
performance “but knows drag when he sees it,” said there 
were not enough drag shows outside of Eugene in Lane 
County to “make a ban count,” which is why the board 
chose to ban the shows in the city, “in order to really slay.” 

When Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson also attempted 
to explain why the commission couldn't ban anything їп 
the city rather than the county, Ceniga said she “wasn’t 
allowed” to weigh in on DEI either while the men were 
talking. 


Eugene's 
Largest 
Polycule 

Breaks Up 


THE LOCAL NON-MONOGAMY 
SCENE VOWS TO REBUILD 


BY EVE WESTON 


Inanannouncement devastating to local polyamorists 
and non-monogamists, the largest polycule in Eugene has 
announced it’s no longer a thing. 

Polycule leader Sock Spirit says members were not 
able to reach funding goals to host weekly slam poetry 
nights at a local co-op. “We're disappointed that our key 
members, Harvest, Doorknob and Sailboat were unable to 
host enough community aid gigs to support this crucial 
part of the polycule;" Spirit says. 

Eugene’s largest polycule consisted of over 100 members 
and was known to dominate the bumble dating app. “We 
were a force of nature,” says member Glove Oak. Now, 
the polycule has split into 25 different sub polycules and 
all of them hate each other. “It’s really easy to start, but 
harder to break away from,” says one of the sub group 
leaders, Tooth Flash. 

The now defunct polycule was known for its large 
contributions to the local drag scene, with over $100,000 
going directly to lobbying for more drag related content in 
local newspapers like the eug. Members say they hope to 
rebuild a new massive polycule with new members, as the 
sub groups are actively recruiting on bumble and Grindr. 


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Mapping 
for MAGA 


Lane County Commission votes 
to rename the Willamette Valley 


BY BOB KEEFER 


fter a contentious two-hour discus- 
sion during an unannounced meeting 
on Wednesday, the Lane County Board 
of County Commissioners voted 3-2 to 
rename the Willamette Valley the “Knight 
Valley.” 

‘The name would honor multibillionaire Phil Knight, 
the richest man in Oregon. 

“Donald Trump has been president for two months 
now, and it’s time Oregon got in step with the MAGA 
mandate,” Commission Chair David Loveall said as 
he introduced an emergency ordinance instituting 
the name change. 

“We're putting millions of dollars in federal aid 
at risk if we don’t do something right away,” Loveall 
said. “The name ‘Willamette’ is just a Frenchified 
version of some old Indian village name. Well, the 
Indians lost, and we don't like the French. I say we 
honor a real American hero like Knight, not a bunch 
of losers" 

He added the name change also applies to the 
Willamette River and will take place immediately. 
“I just want to get it done. I don't want to kick it 
down the road." 

The ordinance applies only to portions of the 
Willamette Valley and the river that lie within Lane 
County. 

Commissioners Laurie Trieger and Heather Buch 
voted against changing the name, citing the expense 
of updating county websites and reprinting stationery, 
and possible confusion if portions of the 150-mile- 
long valley have different names. In addition, they 
said Willamalane Park and Recreation District in 
Springfield would have to be renamed “Knightalane.” 

“Tourists coming here have a hard enough time 
pronouncing ‘Willamette.” Buch said. “We don't 
want to make traveling here any more difficult for 
people coming to events like the Olympic Trials.” 

As the meeting wound down, Buch introduced a 
separate resolution calling for the Lane County Board 
of County Commissioners to be renamed simply the 
Lane County Commission. “It’s the most redundant 
name in all politics)” she said. “Think of the money 
we could save by not having to print such a long title 
on all the county forms.” 

The three conservative members of the board 
rejected Buch's measure, finding that the simplified 
title was somehow connected to diversity, equity 
and inclusivity. “Wokeism has put us all in danger,” 
Commissioner Ryan Ceniga said. “We should be 
free to enjoy as many words as we like in our official 
titles. And we don't want to do anything to get on 
the wrong side of President Trump." 


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This year commences the Faerie Market’s third annual 

celebration and the debut of the Firefly Ball. The market is 
a two-day celebration filled with mostly handcrafted artisan goods, activities for all ages 
and a variety of performances. This is The Faerie Market's first time partnering with 
Pixie Panic, which has hosted monthly Dungeons & Dragons events and live shows in 
Eugene and Springfield for almost two years. Marilyn McElroy, organizer of the Faerie 
Ball, teamed up with Indra Hunter, Pixie Panic’s organizer, after seeing a need for more 
fairy festivities in Eugene. The Faerie Market “was born out of a desire to just kind of 
create more spaces where people could feel magical and have joy,’ McElroy says. The 
market will feature a kids’ costume contest, a live D&D show, a bubble show, music, 
gaming tables and an egg hunt with over 1,500 hidden prizes. Bloom the Local Fairy 
will also host a tea party and bubble show, where juice and cookies will be provided. In 
addition, Kate Becker, a local illustrator, will present her work, and Spacey Macie, a local 
artist, will teach techniques for how to complete a fairy house embroidery. March 29 
will have a woodsy fairy cottage design and March 36 will be a mushroom fairy house. 
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up. The whimsiest will be recognized in the costume contest. “We want to give people 
more of an opportunity to dress up and kind of detach from reality for just a little bit to 
Kind of take care of themselves and feel safe and feel magical,” McElroy says. The ball 
will also feature its first trading blanket, where people can present items to trade ina 
circle. Each person can go around offering select trinkets and items to barter. Quaint 
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She came back 

to her first 
love, labor-intensive in itself but 
different from the near 100-hour 
work weeks and crazy-constant 
travel of working as a lawyer at 
a multinational law firm. “1 was 
a writer first,” says Alice Austen, 
and a decade ago, she left full- 
time legal practice at Dentons to 
pursue her dream. She has made 
award-winning fictional narra- 
tive films and has had a slew of 
plays published, and now Austen 
— a Pleasant Hill High School 
and University of Oregon grad 
— returns to the southern Willa- 
mette Valley to tout her debut 
novel, 33 Place Brugmann, at 
Tsunami Books April 1. Be it as 
a writer or a lawyer, Austen has 
led a remarkable professional life 
— “АП of it ridiculously improb- 
able? she notes. At Dentons she 
was based in Europe and worked 
with, among others, Vaclav Havel, the playwright who engineered the bloodless “Velvet 
Revolution” and became the first president of the Czech Republic in 1989. Before that, 
there was Harvard Law School, and on the side at Harvard Austen studied creative 
writing under Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet-playwright who was awarded the 1995 
Nobel Prize in Literature, Heaney tried to persuade Austen to abandon law for writing, 
but Austen had loans to repay. When the time came to change career paths, Austen 
took up residence at 33 Place Brugmann, a very real residential apartment-like building 
in Brussels, Belgium, where her oldest son was born and her first play was published. 
The novel looks at the residents of 33 Place Brugmann on the eve of World War II, and 
‘Austen did a book signing near the residence in late March, signing copies for residents, 
many of whom she knows. In Lane County, after her Tsunami talk, Austen says she 
will stick around and help her mother celebrate her 89th birthday. — Dan Buckwalter 


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The Firefly Ball, 7:30pm-mid- 
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Gatherings 


Climate Cafe, 7-8:15pm, 
House Concert, 70 E. How- 
ard Ave. 


Kids/Family 
Baby Storytime, 9:45am & 


10:30am, Downtown Eugene 
Public Library. 


Babywearing & Bailando w/ 
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490 Valley River Ctr. FREE- 
$7. 

‘Tweens: Ecologists Club, 


4:30pm, Downtown Eugene 
Public Library. 


Lectures/Classes 


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Eugene Public Library. 


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Literary Arts 


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Open Jam, 6-10pm, Local 
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Highway 99 5 


Rooster's Blues Jam, брт, 
Mac's Restaurant & Night- 
club, 1626 Willamette. 


Rich Fisher, singer-song- 
writer, 6:30-9:30pm, Happy 
Hours, 645 River Rd. 


The Carlile Family Band, folk, 
Americana, indie, 8pm, Art 
House, 492 E. 13th Ave. $20. 


Nightlife 
Pub Trivia, 6-8pm, Sparrow 


& Serpent, 211 Washington 
St. 


Tacos 8 Trivia, 6-8pm, Tall- 
man Brewing, 2055 Prim- 
rose St., Lebanon. 


Trivia, 6pm, Sparrow & Ser- 
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Bingo w/ Ty Connor, 6:30- 
8:30pm, PublicHouse, 418 A 
St., Spfd. 


Bounskee, 6:30pm, PLAY 
Eugene, 232 W. 5th St. 


Trivia w/ Elliot Martinez, 
6:30pm, Oregon Wine LAB, 
488 Lincoln St. 


Social Dance 


Latin Dance Night & Salsa. 
Instruction w/ DJ Vito, 
7-11:30pm, Cowfish Dance 
Club, 62 W. Broadway. 


April 2 


Art/Craft 
Craft Junk Drawer Wind 


Chimes, 5:30-7:30pm, Down- 
town Eugene Public Library. 


Benefits 


Oakshire Inspires: Friends of 
Trees, 5-8pm, Oakshire Pub- 
lic House, 207 Madison St. 


Comedy 


Comic, Interrupted, 8:30pm, 
Cowfish, 62 W. Broadway. 
$5. 


Film 


Occupation 101 (2006), 7pm, 
McNail-Riley House, 601 W. 
18th Ave. 


Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 
(1992), 7-10рт, Whiteside 

Theatre, 361 SW Mac 
Ave., Corvallis. $8-10. 


"Survivor" $48 Watch Party, Group, 1-2:30pm, Trauma. 
7:30pm, PublicHouse, 418 A Healing Project, 631 E. 19th 
St., Spfd. Ave., bldg. B. 
Kids/Family Kids/Family 


Toddler Storytime, 9:45am & 
10:30am, Downtown Eugene 
Public Library. 

Create Painted Rocks, 
4:30pm, Downtown Eugene 
Public Library. 


Family Storytime, 10:15am, 
Bethel Branch of Eugene. 
Public Library, 1990 Echo 
Hollow Rd. 


Sensory Storytime, 10:30am, 
Downtown Eugene Public 
Library. 


Lectures/Classes 


Alzheimer's Lecture Series: 
Empowered Caregiver: Com- 
municating Effectively, 1-2pm, 
Eugene Family YMCA Don 
Stathos Campus, 600 Е. 
24th Ave. 


Erin Espelie: “Blue Velvet & 
Bacteria”, 4pm, University 
of Oregon Lawrence Hall, 
rm. 15. 


Music 


Antonio Soltero Quartet, jazz, 
7-10pm, The Jazz Station, 
124 W. Broadway. $10. 


Jake Xerxes Fussell, folk, 
blues, 8pm, WOW Hall, 291 
W. 8th Ave. 820-25. 


Open Mic, 8:30pm, Mulligan's 
Pub, 2841 Willamette. 


Millenial Night w/ DJ Amaya, 
‘9pm-2am, Cowfish Dance 


Club, 62 W. Broadway. Music 


Nightlife Open Mic, брт, Mac's at the 
Davey's Dungeon & Dragons, Vet's Club, 1626 Willamette. 
Cp. PLAT Eugene, ሽን Michael Mayo, jazz, 6:30- 


7:45pm & 8:30-9:45pm, 

The Jazz Station, 124 W. 
Broadway. $40. 
Concertantel, chamber 
concert, 7-8pm, Lamb Cot- 
tage at Skinner's Butte, 180 
Cheshire Ave. $10-20. 


Pants with Pockets, Ameri- 
cana, folk, 7-9pm, beergar- 
den, 777 W. 6th Ave. 


Rainbow Game Night, 6-8pm, 
Shelton McMurphey John- 
son House, 303 Willamette. 
FREE- $5. 


Western Wednesday, 6pm- 
2am, Jackalope Lounge, 453 
Willamette. 


Cribbage Night, 6:30-8:30pm, 
The Bier Stein, 1591 Wil- 


(атаке. $5. DJ Jon Smith, vinyl, 8pm, 
Bingo w/ Ty Connor, 7-9pm, PLAY Eugene, 232 W. 5th 
beergarden, 777 W. 6th Ave. St. 

Karaoke w/ KJ JudyJitsu, Meredith Adelaide: To Believe 


I'm the Sun, 8pm, Art House, 
492 E. 13th Ave. $20. 

Cole Gallagher w/ Harrison 
Flynn, singer-songwriters, 
9pm, Sam Bond's, 407 Blair 
Blvd. 

Funk Night Eugene, 9pm, 
Luckey's Club, 933 Olive St. 
Noche De Rumba w/ DJ 
Pachanga Mix, 9pm-2am, 
Cowfish Dance Club, 62 W. 
Broadway. 


Nightlife 
Pagan Pub Moot, 6-8pm, 


Sparrow & Serpent, 271 
Washington St. 


Trivia w/ Brett, 6:30-8:30pm, 
Viking Brewing West, 520 
Commercial St., unit F. 


Karaoke w/ Crystal, 8pm, 
Happy Hours, 645 River Rd. 


Outdoors/Recreation 
Roller Skating, 5-8pm, Farm- 


Bpm-midnight, 255 Madison, 
255 Madison St. 


Outcdoors/Recreation 


Community Yoga, 5:30- 
6:30pm, Sacred Connec- 
tions Community Church, 
810 W. 3rd Ave. 


Social Dance 


Argentine Tango Dancing, 
7-10pm, Veterans' Memorial 
Building, 1626 Willamette. 


Teens 


Play VR Beat Saber, 4:30pm, 
Downtown Eugene Public 
Library, 100 W. 10th Ave. 


April 3 


Comedy 


TJ Miller, 7pm, Olsen Run 
Comedy Club, 44 E. 7th Ave. 


$30-40. ers Market Pavilion, 85 E. 
5 8ሂከ Ave. 
Film > 
Spiritual 


Eno, 7:15pm, Art House, 492 
E. 13th Ave. $15. 


Gatherings 


Hearing Voices & Different. 
Realities Discussion & Support 


Refuge Recovery, 5:30-7pm, 
Sacred Connections Com- 
munity Church, 810 W. 3rd 
Ave. 


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THE SINGING 
ARCHIVIST 


Jake Xerxes Fussell updates 
the American folk tradition 
for modern audiences 


BY WILL KENNEDY 


ounger generations tend to 

reject their elders’ music, but 

when Jake Xerxes Fussell was 

a teenager — the son of folklor- 
ist and photographer Fred C. Fussell and 
former student of blues legend Precious 
Bryant, who died in 2013 at the age of 71 
— old-timey folk, blues and country music 
was a form of rebellion. 

Fussell, 43, comes to Eugene, support- 
ing last year’s excellent When I’m Called, 
his fifth full-length album, and first on Fat 
Possum Records, a showcase for Fussell's 
curatorial eye for archaic American acous- 


tic music drawn primarily from the Amer- 
ican South and viewed through Fussell’s 
modern lens. 

In addition to his Bryant tutelage, 
Fussell has appeared on Prairie Home 
Companion, accompanied Etta Baker and 
toured with Wilco and The Decemberists. 

“I was fortunate to be around people 
who played traditional music when I was a 
kid,” Fussell tells Eugene Weekly in a phone 
call, his humid Georgia drawl evident in a 
deep baritone speaking voice, not unlike 
how he sings. 

“му parents were involved in that 
music, and they were outsiders them- 
selves. So I never felt the need to rebel 
against folk music. It was weird in and of 
itself. That exposure was very transforma- 
tive and visceral,” Fussell adds. 

Traditional music, Fussell says, “felt 
like alternative culture to me, because 
in many ways it was oppositional to the 
mainstream. Being into folk music in some 
ways was rebellious.” 

‘Accompanying himself on both acoustic 
and electric guitar — in Eugene, a percus- 
sionist will back him up — Fussell has a 
compelling songwriter’s point of view. 
However, he doesn't write songs and 


doesn't write lyrics. 

Instead, Fussell takes deep cuts and 
archival folk music, adds and subtracts, 
dropping and adding verses here and there, 
creating something that slots nicely along- 
side contemporary indie folk singer-song- 
writers like Fussell's contemporaries, Will 
Oldham and Bill Callahan. 

Describing his approach to the material 
to bend and reshape, Fussell says, “There 
are plenty of traditional songs that I'l leave 
alone and let other people do, just because 
I have to be able to find my way into it” 

Some of Fussel!'s melodies, he describes, 
could be a popular tune from the early 
2oth century combined with something 
much older than that. "Certain melodies 


that were once sea shanties later become 
lullabies or war songs. So things get repur- 
posed and upcycled,” he says. 

In the When I’m Called press material, 
Fussell calls the music “traditional” and 
some “not so traditional,” where, adorned 
with string and melancholy horn arrange- 
ments, fragments of 18th-century nursery 
rhymes sit next to an obscure Maestro 
Garry Gaxiola cover “Andy” from Gaxio- 
1а 1986 cassette-only cult classic album, 
Go'N to New York, about Andy Warhol. 


"Sometimes I can be faithful to the 
source material that I'm drawing from. ГЇЇ 
play it pretty much like the version that 
I've heard, or a combination of versions 
that I've heard," he says. 

Other times, he adds, “It'll be like a 
dramatic reinterpretation because there's 
something in there that I like, or I want to 
get at and draw out.” 

“Maybe it was a narrative ballad, miss- 
ing a few verses, and the narrative doesn’t 
make sense: Why does it end on this weird 
verse? Or what happened to that charac- 
ter who showed up in the song, and then 
never comes back again?” Fussell says. 

According to Fussell, that approach is 
the folk tradition in the truest sense, which 
he learned from his elders growing up. 

“Traditional music is a wash of things 
that have filtered through generations of 
different people and different communi- 
ties.” The music “gets filtered through 
different people,” he says, adding that clas- 
sic folk tunes “have been tossed around. 
There's not one pure strand.” 


Jake Xerxes Fussell performs with Ashland 
acoustic singer-songwriter Kathryn Kavanagh 8 
рт Wednesday, April 2, at WOW Hall, 291 West 8th 
Avenue. Tickets are $20 advance, $25 door, all-ages. 


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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 
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OF LANE (Probate Department) In the 
Matter of the Estate of ILENE ANN 
BARROW, Deceased. Case Number. 
25801628 NOTICE TO INTERESTED 
PERSONS. Notice is hereby given that 
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Estate of Kay Eyleen McDonald 
NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS 
(Case 2508011 Notice: The Circuit Court 
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 
STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY 
OF LANE (Probate Department) In the 
Matter of the Estate of NANCY WADE, 
Deceased. Case Number. 25PB01614 
NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS. Notioe 
is hereby given that James Jenkins and 
Sean Wade have been appointed and have 
qualified as the co-personal representa 
tives of the estate. All persons having 
claims against the estate are hereby 
required to present the same, with proper 
vouchers, within four months after the 
date of first publication of this notioe, as 
stated below, to the co-personal represen- 
atives at: James Jenkins and Sean Wade, 
olo Lynn Shepard, Attorney at Law, 800 
Willamette St. Ste 700, Eugene, Oregon 
97401, or they may be barred. All persons. 
whose rights may be affected by the pro 
ceedings in this estate may obtain addi- 
tional information from the records of the 
court, the personal representative, or the 
attorney for the personal representative, 
Dated and first published: March 27th, 
2025. Dated this 20th day of March 2025, 


BOENDER &PAYMENTS, ATTORNEYS. Lynn 
Shepard, 088 #80107 Attorney for 
Co-Personal Representatives. Boender & 
Payment Attorneys, 800 Willamette 
Street, Suite 700, Eugene, Oregon 97401 
Co-Personal Representative: James 
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STATE OF OREGON FOR LANE 
COUNTY Juvenile Department. In the 
Matter of APOLLO ALEXANDER GILLILAND, 
A Child. Case No. 24JU04509 PUBLISHED 
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NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON: A peti- 
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the circuit court judge of the above-ont 
Чой court, dated February 6, 2025. The 
order directs that this summons be pub. 
lished once each week far three conseou 
tive weeks, making three publications in 
all, in a published newspaper of general 
cirouation in Lane County. Date of fist 
publication: April 10, 2025 Date of last 
publication: April 24, 2025 NOTICE READ 
THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY If you do not 
appear personally before the court as 
directed above, then you must appear May 
16, 2025, at 10:00 am. at the same 
address listed above. If you fail to appear 
for both dates or do not appear at any 
subsequent court-ordered hearing, the 
‘court may proceed in your absence and, 
without further notice, TERMINATE YOUR 
PARENTAL RIGHTS to the above-named 
child either on the dates specified in THIS 
‘SUMMONS OR ON A FUTURE DATE and 
may make such orders and take such 
action as authorized by law. To request 
appointment of an attorney to represent тау 
you at state expanse, you must ask the 

judge at the May 1, 2026, at 10.00 am. 
hearing listed in this summons. RIGHTS 
AND OBLIGATIONS (1) YOU HAVE A RIGHT 
TO BE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY IN 
THIS MATTER. If you are currently repre- 
sented by an attorney, CONTACT YOUR 
ATTORNEY = IMMEDIATELY ОРОМ 
RECEIVING THIS NOTICE. Your previous. 
attorney may not be representing you in 
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ATTORNEY, please retain one as soon as 
possible to represent you in this proceed- 
ing. f you need help finding an attorney, 
you may call the Oragon State Bars 
Lawyer Referral Service at (509) 684- 
8768 or toll free in Oregon at (800) 452- 
7636. IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE 
ለዘ ATTORNEY and you meet the state's 
financial guidelines, you are entitled to 
have an attorney appointed for you at 
state expense. 

APPOINTMENT OF AN ATTORNEY TO 
REPRESENT YOU AT STATE EXPENSE, YOU 
MUST IMMEDIATELY CONTACT the Lane 
County Circuit Court at 2727 Martin 
Blvd. Eugene, Oregon 
97401, Phone: 541-682-4020 between the 
hours of 800 ат. and 6:00 рл. for fur 
ther information. 
REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY, IT IS Home [0 No. 
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN 
CONTACT WITH YOUR ATTORNEY AND TO 
KEEP YOUR ATTORNEY ADVISED OF YOUR 
WHEREABOUTS. (2) If you contest the 
petition, the court will schedule а hearing 
on the allegations of the petition and order 
you to appear personally and may sched- 
ule other hearings related to the petition 
and order you to appear personally IF YOU 
ARE ORDERED TO APPEAR, YOU MUST 
PERSONALLY IN THE 
‘COURTROOM, UNLESS THE COURT HAS 
GRANTED YOU ለክ EXCEPTION IN 
ADVANCE under ORS 4198.918 to appear 
by other means including, but nat limited 
to, telephonic or other eleotronio means. 
Ап attorney may not attend the hearing(s) 
in your place. PETITIONER'S ATTORNEY 
Alex Pierce Assistant Attorney General 
Department of Justice, 975 Oak Street, 
Suite 200 Eugene, OR 87401. 541-686- 
7978 ISSUED this Srd day of March, 2025. 
Issued by: Alex Pierce, 088 175853 
Assistant Attorney General 


IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 
STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY 
OF LANE In tho Mattor of tho Estate of 
ROBERT GREGORY KING, Deceased. 
Probate Case No. 24PB03594 NOTICE TO 
INTERESTED PERSONS. 
HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has 
been appointed personal representative. 
All persons having claims against the 
estate are required to present them, with 
vouchers attached, to Mark P. O'Donnell 
attorney for Personal Representative, at 
O'Donnell Law Firm LLC, 1 Centerpointe 
Dr. Ste 505, Lake Oswego, OR 97036, 
within four months after the date of first 
publication of this notice, or the claims 
jarred. All persons whose rights 
тау be affected by the proceedings may 
obtain additional information from the 
records of the cour, the personal repre- 
sentative, or the attorneys for the person- 
al representative, Mark P. O'Donnell. Dated 
and first published March 27th, 2025 
Jann Dunlap, Personal Representative 


NOTICE OF SALE OF ABANDONED 
MANUFACTURED HOME Hannah Dol 
Estates, LLO, an Oregon limited liability 
company, will sell the below-described 
manufactured home by private sealed bid 
for the highest offered received, The home 
has been abandoned, The home, папе) 
‘and owner aro desoribed below. Bids for 
cash payment will be accepted until 9:00 
am, April 4, 2025. Interested parties may 
contaot agent Mark Rose by phone num- 
ber (541) 250-6597 to make arrange- 
ments to inspect the homo. Bids may be 
‘submitted to Hannah Del Estates, LLC, o/o 
Mark Rose by phone at 503-623-8241 or 
by mail at PO. Box 1375, Corvallis, OR 
97339 for the following manufactured 
home described as: Manufacturer: PALM 
HARBOR; Model: Unknown; Year: 2000; 
2968; Serial No. 
PH204120AB, located at 2634 Janelle 
Way, Space #75, Eugene, Lane County, 
Oregon 97404; the registered owner and 
former tenants are the Katrina Currence, 
John Currenoe, David Richard Tierney 
Katrina Ann Tierney, Marvin Earl, Trustee 
Mary L. Glaser Roberts, Trustee of the 
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NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL 
PROPERTY Brooks Aviation LLC, an 
Oregon limited liability company, will sell 
personal property located in the storage 
unit described below by public auction for 
the highest offered received at 9:00 am, 
April 5, 2025. The storage unit and all 
personal property therein are located at 
90082 Prairie Road, Storage Unit #15, 
Eugene, Lane County, Oregon 97402; the 
registered owner and former tenant are 
Kody Hill Prospective bidders may 
inspect the storage no more than 10 min- 
utes prior to the scheduled publio auction. 
Bids shall be in cash payment or certified 
check, or money order made payable to 
Brooks Aviation LLC. Interested parties 
may contact Brooks Aviation LLC, an 
Oregon limited liability company ofo Kevin 
Brooks by phone at 54-954-4440 or by 
тай at PO Box 23038, Eugene, Oregon 
NOTICE IS 97402. 


NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL 
PROPERTY Brooks Aviation LLC, an 
Oregon limited liability company, will sell 
all personal property including the motor. 
vehicle (described below) located in the 
storage urit (desoribed below) by public 
auction for the highest offered received at 
9:00 am. April 4, 2025. The former tenant, 
the registered owner and lienholder of the 
motor vehicla are described below. The 
storage unit and all personal property 
including the motor vehicle therein are 
located at 90062 Prairie Road, Storage 
Unit #5, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon 
97402 (‘storage unit’). The motor vehicle 
located unit the storage unit is described 
‘as: Make: LEXIS; Modal: 300; Year: 1908, 
Body Style: 40; License Plate No. 
UNKNOWN; Title No: 0323414334; Vin 
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My husband's best friend turned into one. 
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though he was joining as the third guy ina 
polyamory relationship. After a few months, 
their relationship went from polyamorous 
to monogamous. Our friend met his new 
girlfriend's kid very early in the relation- 
ship, even spending the night after only 
knowing this woman for a couple of months. 
Within six months of dating, they shared the 
kid's toothbrush on a vacation. They didn't 
say they boiled the toothbrush or took any 
measures to clean the toothbrush until 
weeks later when they were pressed on it. 
This is when we started to distance our- 
selves because we felt this behavior showed 
alack of respect for this child. We had a 
severe falling out due to this. Now they are 
engaged, and it raises even more concerns 
for us. How do we proceed? Should we stop 
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While I got letters about grosser things this 
week, yours was the most surprising letter that. 
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your friend would tell you about using this 
child's toothbrush on vacation and, second, 
that you would write to me — а sex-advice col- 
umnist — about your friend using this child's 
toothbrush, 


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against it — and using someone else's tooth- 
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whose address is 599 Coburg Rd. Apt. 
98, Eugene, OR 97401, and lienholder is 
Rivermark Community Credit Union, 
whose address is 14405 Mayers Rd. 
Oragon City, OR 97045-8199, The former 
tenant of the storage unit is Kenneth 
McCormick, whose address is 300 N 38th 
St, Springfield, OR 97478. Prospective 
bidders may inspect the storage unit no 
more than 10 minutes prior to the sched- 
uled publio auction. Bids shall be in cash 
payment or certified check, or money 
order made payable to Brooks Aviation 
LLC. Interested parties may contact 
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liability company ofo Kevin Brooks by 
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NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS IN 
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF 
‘OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF LANE In the 
Mattor of the Estate of: Gwen | Kraby, 
Deceased. Case #28፻802234. NOTICE IS 
HEREBY GIVEN that Michael Tatro has 
been appointed Personal Representative 
of the Estate of Gwen | Kraby. АП persons 
having claims against the estate are 
required to present them, with vouchers 
attached, to the personal representative 
at PO Box 1270, Newport, OR, 97365, with- 
in four months after the date of first publi- 
cation of this notice, or the claims may be 
barred, All persons whose rights may be 
affected by the proceedings may obtain 
additional information from the records of 
the Court, the personal representative, or 
the attorneys for the personal representa- 
tive, Macpherson, Gintner Bamp; Diaz, PO 
Box 1270, Newport, Oregon 97365. 
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Michael 
Tatro, PO Box 386, Waldport, OR 97394. 
ATTORNEY FOR PERSONAL 
REPRESENTATIVE: Richard S Diaz, 0S8 No. 
860313 PO Box 1270 Newport, Oregon 
97385 Telephone: 541-265-8881. Email 
Address: diaz@mggdlaw.com Published 
March 20th, 2Tth & April 3rd, 2025. 


TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE Th: 
Trustee under the terms of the Trust Deed 
described herein, at the direction of the 
Beneficiary hereby elects to sell the prop- 
апу described in the Trust Deed to satisfy 
the obligations secured thereby, Pursuant 
to ORS 867 the following informationis NOTICE REGARDING POTENTIAL 
provided: 1. PARTIES: Grantor: DAVID 0. 
DODSON AND EMILY A. DODSON Trustee: 
CASCADE TITLE COMPANY Successor 
Trustee: NANCY K. CARY Beneficiary: 
SHERYL A. QUAY 2. DESCRIPTION OF 
PROPERTY: The real property is described 
as follows: Desoribed on the Attached 
Exhibit A. 3. RECORDING. The Trust Deed 
was recorded as follows: Date Recorded: 
October 24, 2017 Recording No. 2017- 
052832 Offiial Records of Lane County, 
Oregon. 4. DEFAULT. The Grantor or any 
other person obligated on the Trust Deed 
and Promissory Note secured thereby isin 
default and the Beneficiary seeks to fore- 
close the Trust Deed for failure to pay: The 
entire principal balance due November 1 
2024; plus late charges and advances: 
plus any unpaid real property taxes or 
liens, plus interest. 5. AMOUNT DUE. The 
amount due on the Note which is securod 
by the Trust Deed referred to herein is: 
Principal ከ88በ65 in the amount of 
$12079192; plus interest at the rate of 
500% per annum from July 21, 2024; plus 
lato charges of $74.90; plus advances and 
foreclosure attorney fees and costs. б. 
SALE OF PROPERTY. The Trustee hereby 
states that the property will be sold to 
satisfy the obligations seoured by the 
Trust Deed, A Trustee's Notice of Default 
and Election to Sell Under Terms of Trust 
Deed has been recorded in the Oficial 
Records of Lane County, Oregon. 7. TIME 
OF SALE. Date: May 22, 2025 Time: 1.00 
‘am. Place: Lane County Courthouse, Front 
Entrance, Inside by Security, 125 E. 8th 
Avenue, Eugene, Oregon 97401. 8. RIGHT 
TO REINSTATE. Any person named in ORS 
86718 has the right, at any time that is 
not later than five days before the Trustee 
conducts the sale, to have this foreclosure. 
dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated 
by payment to the Beneficiary of the 
entire amount then due, other than such 
Portion of the principal as would not then 
bo due had no default accurred, by curing 
any other default that is capable of being 
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and by paying all costs and expons- 
вв actually incurred in enforcing the obli- 
gation and Trust Deed, together with the 
trustee's and attorney's fees not exceed- 
ing the amount provided in ORS 86.78. 


HAZARDS (This notice is required for 
notices of sale sent on or after January 1 
2015) Without limiting the trustees dis 
olaimer of representations or warranties, 
Oregon law requires the trustee to state in 
this notice that some residential property 
sold at a trustee's sale may have been 
used in manufacturing methamphet 
amines, the chemical components of 
which are known to be toxi Prospective 
purchasers of residential property should 
be aware of this potential danger before 
deciding to place a bid for this property at 
the trustees sale. You may reach the 
Oregon State Bars Lawyer Referral 
Sorvice at 503-684-3763 or toll-free in 
Oregon at 800-452-1636 or you may visit 
its website at: wwwosbar.org. Legal assis- 
tance may be available if you have a low 
income and meat federal poverty guide- 
lines. For more information and a directory 
of legal aid programs, go to http.]wr. 
oregonlawhelp.rg. Any questions regard- 
ing this matter should be direoted to Lisa 
Summers, Paralegal, (841) 686-0344 (TS 
21468641). DATED: December 27, 2024. 
Nancy К. Cary Successor Trustee, 
Hershner Hunter, LLP, PO. Вох 1475, 
Eugene, OR 97440. EXHIBIT A Beginning at 
а point South 89° 48: O0" East 106481 
feat from the Southwest corner of Section. 
2, Township 16 South, Range 6 West of the 
Willamette Meridian, which point is 
marked by 2/8" iron pin on the South line 
of Section 2፻ thence along said section 
lino South 89° 46! O0" East 25519 foot to 
6/8" iron pin; thence leaving said section 
ling North 98031 feat to а PK nail an the 
centerline of State Highway No. 36 
(Siuslaw Highway), said point being North 
3864 feet from a 5/8" iron pin; thenoe 
along said centerline North 50° 66 24" 
West 11206 feet to a PK пай, said point 
being North 22° 86° 47" East 9128 feet 
from а 5/8" iron pin; thence leaving said 
centerline South 22° 36" 4T" West 352.14 
feat to a 5/8" iron pin; thence South 02° 
35 27" West 72552 feat to the point af 
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ancient Rome's emperor Julius Caesar undertook a radical 
move to fix the calendar, which had become increasingly inaccurate as the centuries passed. 
He added three months to the year 46 ВСЕ, which as a result was 448 days long. 'm thinking 
that 2025 might seem equally long for you, Aries. Your destiny may feel like it's taking forever to 
unfold, APRIL FOOL! totally lied. In fact, I think 2025 will be one of your briskest, crispest years 
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Guilt and fear are always useless distractions from what's 
really happening. Right? APRIL FOOL! The fact is that on rare occasions, being anxious can 
motivate you to escape from situations that your logical mind says are tolerable. And guilt may 
compel you to take the right action when nothing else will. This is one time when your guilt and 
fear can be valuable assets. 


GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The German word Flüsterwitze means "whisper jokes.” These 
jests make taboo references and need to be delivered with utmost discretion, They may include 
the mockery of authority figures. Dear Gemini, I recommend that you suppress your wicked sat- 
ire and uproarious sarcasm for a while and stick to whisper jokes. APRIL FOOL | lied. The truth 
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colors had been brown on the bottom and red on the top. The $60-million job took 25 painters 
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APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. The truth is that | think you should be a little less extravagant than | 
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summon more power and help than you can imagine. APRIL FOOL! I haif-lied. While it's true that 
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least partially rely on the equivalent of special effects. 


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their problems a fot. In fact, they quarrel 60 percent of the time. Areas of disagreement include 
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Let's make these bats your power creatures. The astrological omens say it's time for you to 
argue more than you have ever argued. APRIL FOOL! | was not entirely truthful. The coming 
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tradition except one that literally can't exist — the celebration of the singular thought sung at 
a particular instant in a unique voice.” She has also written, “it’s necessary to maintain a state 
of disobedience against everything.” She describes her work as “an immense act of rebellion 
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Scorpio. APRIL FOOL! | lied. In fact, | encourage you to enjoy a Notley-like phase beginning Мау 
1. But for now, | invite you to be extra attentive in cultivating all the ways you can benefit from 
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test that many American high school students take to prove their worth to colleges. The high- 
est possible score is achieved by fewer than one percent of test-takers. We might imagine that 
earning such a premium grade must guarantee admission to any school, but it doesn't. During 
опе five-year period, for example, Stanford University rejected 69 percent of applicants with 
the highest possible score. I'm sorry to predict that a comparable experience might be ahead 
for you, Sagittarius. Even if you are your best and brightest self, you may be denied your rightful 
reward. APRIL FOOL! | totally lied. Here's my real, true prediction: In the coming weeks, | believe 
you will be your best and brightest self — and will win your rightful reward, 


CAPRICORN (vec. 22-Ian. 19): The visible part of an iceberg is typically just 10 percent 
of its total size. Most is hidden beneath the sea's surface. References to “the tip of the iceberg" 
have become a staple metaphor in many cultures, signifying situations that are not what they 
seem. Of all the zodiac tribes, Scorpios are renowned for their expertise in discerning concealed 
agendas and missing information. The rest of us tend to be far less skilful. APRIL FOOL! | fibbed 
These days, you Capricorns are even more talented than Scorpios at looking beyond the obvi- 
ous and becoming aware of the concealed roots and full context. 


AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the coming weeks, | advise you to be like the 18th-century 
post Emily Dickinson. She lived in quiet seclusion, corresponding through letters instead of 
socializing, She seemed content to write her poems all alone in her home and be unconcerned 
about trying to get them published. APRIL FOOL! lied. Here's my real horoscope: Now is a high- 
ly favorable time for you to shmooze with intensity at a wide range of social occasions, both to 
get all the educational prods you need and to advance your ambitions 


PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some systems and situations improve and thrive in response 
to stress and errors. Indeed, some things need strain or irregularity to be fully healthy. For 
example, human bodies require a certain amount of stress to develop a resistance to infection. 
In reading the astrological omens, | conclude you now need stimulation like that. APRIL FOOL! 
| lied. Here's the truth: August of 2025 will be a great time for you to harvest the benefits of 
benevolent stress. But for now, your forte will be the capacity to avoid and resist stress, con- 
fusion and errors 


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